Facing the heat after dissolving the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, Governor Satya Pal Malik found himself in a eye of storm yet again by his sensational statement. He reportedly said, had he looked to Delhi, he would have had to install a government led by Sajjad Lone, and history would have remembered him as a “dishonest man”.

Malik had abruptly dissolved the Jammu and Kashmir assembly last week after the Peoples Democratic Party staked claim to form a government with the backing of rival National Conference and the Congress.

During a pre-convocation academic conclave of ITM University in Gwalior on Saturday, he said,”Delhi ki taraf dekhta toh mujhe Lone ki sarkar banana padhti aur mein ithihas mein ek bayiman aadmi ke tor pe jata…(Had I looked to Delhi, I would have had to install a government led by Lone, and history would have remembered me as a dishonest man).”